A total of twelve people have been charged following the police investigation into the terror plot in 2011. Three men were found guilty today of leading a terrorist bomb plot that could have bigger than the July 7 bombings.

Muslim worshippers in Sparkhill have been giving their reaction to the conviction of Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali.

They were planning a suicide bombing campaign which could have been more deadly that the July 7th attacks in London.

Worshippers at the Jamia Mosque Amir-e-Millat, near where the men lived, say their actions spoil the relationship in the community, and in no way represents the teachings of Islam.

One worshipper at the Jamia Mosque Amir-e-Millat told ITV News:

"Everybody's disappointed. Everybody's horrified. Nobody wants this sort of plotting going on in this area. Somebody's producing these terrorists not for the good gain of Muslims. It spoils the relationship in the community and overall in the world, for that matter."

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Mr Justice Henriques told the trio that they will all face life in prison when they are sentenced in April or May.

Speaking to Naseer, he said he had been convicted on "overwhelming evidence" and that he will face "a very long minimum term".

The judge said: "

You are a highly skilled bomb maker and explosives expert. Your mindset was similarly manifest.

You sought to persuade others that a terror plot here in this country was by far preferable to fighting jihad abroad.

The scale and extent of your ambition was similarly manifest. You were seeking to recruit a team of somewhere between six and eight suicide bombers to carry out a spectacular bombing campaign, one which would create an anniversary along the lines of 7/7 or 9/11.

It's clear that you were planning a terrorist outrage in Birmingham.

The judge told Khalid he was "virtually inseparable" from Naseer.

You were very much his confidant and his right-hand man.

He said to Ali:

I had mistakenly formed the view that you were a rather foolish recruit to this terrorist cell and rather less dangerous than your co-accused.

You have dissuaded me from that view. You are intelligent, devious and highly manipulative.

Special prosecutor with the counter terrorism division Karen Jones said the bomb plotters were "dangerous men with dangerous aspirations" who wanted to create an attack that was "bigger than 7/7" and "another 9/11."